[PATCH v6 00/26] Net/SPNIC: support SPNIC into DPDK 22.03

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 12/30/2021 6:08 AM, Yanling Song wrote:
> The patchsets introduce SPNIC driver for Ramaxel's SPNxx serial NIC cards into DPDK 22.03.
> Ramaxel Memory Technology is a company which supply a lot of electric products:
> storage, communication, PCB...
> SPNxxx is a serial PCIE interface NIC cards:
> SPN110: 2 PORTs *25G
> SPN120: 4 PORTs *25G
> SPN130: 2 PORTs *100G
> 

Hi Yanling,

As far as I can see hnic (from Huawei) and this spnic drivers are alike,
what is the relation between these two?

> The following is main features of our SPNIC:
> - TSO
> - LRO
> - Flow control
> - SR-IOV(Partially supported)
> - VLAN offload
> - VLAN filter
> - CRC offload
> - Promiscuous mode
> - RSS
> 
> v6->v5, No real changes:
> 1. Move the fix of RTE_ETH_DEV_AUTOFILL_QUEUE_XSTATS from patch 26 to patch 2;
> 2. Change the description of patch 26.
> 
> v5->v4:
> 1. Add prefix "spinc_" for external functions;
> 2. Remove temporary MACRO: RTE_ETH_DEV_AUTOFILL_QUEUE_XSTATS
> 3. Do not use void* for keeping the type information
> 
> v3->v4:
> 1. Fix ABI test failure;
> 2. Remove some descriptions in spnic.rst.
> 
> v2->v3:
> 1. Fix clang compiling failure.
> 
> v1->v2:
> 1. Fix coding style issues and compiling failures;
> 2. Only support linux in meson.build;
> 3. Use CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE instead of CLOCK_MONOTONIC/CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW;
> 4. Fix time_before();
> 5. Remove redundant checks in spnic_dev_configure();
> 
> Yanling Song (26):
>    drivers/net: introduce a new PMD driver
>    net/spnic: initialize the HW interface
>    net/spnic: add mbox message channel
>    net/spnic: introduce event queue
>    net/spnic: add mgmt module
>    net/spnic: add cmdq and work queue
>    net/spnic: add interface handling cmdq message
>    net/spnic: add hardware info initialization
>    net/spnic: support MAC and link event handling
>    net/spnic: add function info initialization
>    net/spnic: add queue pairs context initialization
>    net/spnic: support mbuf handling of Tx/Rx
>    net/spnic: support Rx congfiguration
>    net/spnic: add port/vport enable
>    net/spnic: support IO packets handling
>    net/spnic: add device configure/version/info
>    net/spnic: support RSS configuration update and get
>    net/spnic: support VLAN filtering and offloading
>    net/spnic: support promiscuous and allmulticast Rx modes
>    net/spnic: support flow control
>    net/spnic: support getting Tx/Rx queues info
>    net/spnic: net/spnic: support xstats statistics
>    net/spnic: support VFIO interrupt
>    net/spnic: support Tx/Rx queue start/stop
>    net/spnic: add doc infrastructure
>    net/spnic: fixes unsafe C style code

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